Install Synology DSM 5.0 on VPS

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Install Synology DSM 5.0 on VPS

Hi everyone, in this post i’m going to show you how to install Synology DSM 5.0 on your VPS.

Please have a look at tutorial below to install DSM 5.0 on VPS. I use DigitalOcean droplet to make this tutorial

How To Install Virtualbox Headless on CentOS 6.6

Goal

After this tutorial, we are going to have fully functional headless VirtualBox server

Requirements

  • 1 CentOS 6.6 droplet (1GB RAM)
  • VirtualBox 4.3.28 (Linux version)
  • Extension pack
  • phpVirtualBox
  • Nanoboot 5.0 32bit (link provided at the end of this post)
  • DSM 5.0 from Synology
  • You know how to use Virtualbox

Prepare droplet

Oracle VirtualBox can not work with CentOS latest kernel 2.6.32.504. We have to switch back to older version 2.6.32.431

You can easily switch your kernel version by change kernel in your account Dashboard

Change droplet kernel

Start and get access to your droplet

  • Install neccesary package (epel-release, wget, nano)

yum install -y epel-release nano wget

  • Verify your kernel version

uname -r

  • Download additional kernel packages

Go to any directory (Eg. /opt)

cd /opt

  • Download kernel-devel and kernel-headers

wget http://vmblogs.vn/package/kernel-devel-2.6.32-431.1.2.0.1.el6.x86_64.rpm

wget http://vmblogs.vn/package/kernel-headers-2.6.32-431.1.2.0.1.el6.x86_64.rpm

  • Install kernel-devel and kernel-headers

yum localinstall kernel-headers-2.6.32-431.1.2.0.1.el6.x86_64.rpm

yum localinstall kernel-devel-2.6.32-431.1.2.0.1.el6.x86_64.rpm

  • Exclude kernel packages from updating

Edit the file/etc/yum.conf

exclude=kernel*

  • Update system

yum update -y

Install Development Tools

In order for VirtualBox to compile correctly, we have to install necessary tools

yum groupinstall "Development Tools" -y

Download and install Virtualbox

Download VirtualBox and other packages Go to /opt

  • Download latest stable version of VirtualBox

wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.3.28/VirtualBox-4.3.28-100309-Linux_amd64.run

wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.3.28/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.3.28-100309.vbox-extpack

wget http://dlc-cdn.sun.com/virtualbox/4.3.28/VBoxGuestAdditions_4.3.28.iso

Setup VirtualBox

  • Allow VirtualBox to run

chmod +x VirtualBox-4.3.28-100309-Linux_amd64.run

  • Setup VirtualBox

./VirtualBox-4.3.28-100309-Linux_amd64.run

  • Install Extension package

VBoxManage extpack install Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.3.28-100309.vbox-extpack

Verify Extensions Package

VBoxManage list extpacks

Compile VirtualBox driver

service vboxdrv setup

Start and stop VirtualBox web service

  • To start web service

vboxwebsrv

  • To stop web service

Ctrl + C

You may want to use screen with vboxwebsrv

Download and configure phpVirtualBox

Setup httpd server

yum install httpd php php-common php-soap

Download phpVirtualBox

  • Download phpVirtualBox

wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpvirtualbox/files/phpvirtualbox-4.3-3.zip/download

  • Rename download file

mv download phpVirtualbox.zip

  • Extract download file

unzip phpVirtualbox.zip

  • Rename extracted folder

mv phpVirtualbox-4.3-3 phpvirtualbox

  • Move to web folder

mv phpvirtualbox /var/www/html

Config phpVirtualBox

Go to phpVirtualbox directory

cd /var/www/html/phpvirtualbox

Rename config.php-sample

mv config.php-sample config.php

Edit config.php

nano config.php

var $username = ‘your_root_account’;

var $password = ‘your_root_password’;

var $location = ‘http://127.0.0.1:18083/’; do not modify this

Create new setting file

touch /etc/defaults/virtualbox

and edit /etc/defaults/virtualbox with options below

VBOXWEB_USER=vbox

VBOXWEB_HOST=127.0.0.1

Disable SELinux /etc/selinux/config

SELINUX=disabled

Add firewall rule to allow web access

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT

Now start httpd server and access phpVirtuaBox

service httpd start

chkconfig httpd on

http://your-ip-address/phpvirtualbox

Default phpVirtualBox login

Username: admin

Password: admin

Troubleshooting

phpVirtualBox can not login

Run this command to fix login problem

VBoxManage setproperty websrvauthlibrary null

Notes

  • Although Virtualbox display 64bit at OS selection, you just can not use or your VMs will stop with Stuck error
  • The performance is really low. I managed to install a XPenology (Synology opensource), it took about 15 minutes to boot up and login successfully
  • Set CPU CAP at 70-80% for your VMs
  • For better performance, you are advised to make swap file on your droplet. Check this link on DO

XPenology

  • After get access to phpVirtualBox, you can create new VirtualBox VM for XPenology
  • 1core CPU
  • 512MB RAM
  • HDD depend on your VPS
  • CD with Nanoboot ISO mount at first boot
  • No USB
  • NAT network with port 5000 forward to VM (default VM IP is 10.0.2.15). You also need to open port in iptables to allow access from outside (5000)

Download links

Nanoboot x86 ISO

DMS 5.0

Pre-configured VM – ready to import

Username and password for pre-configured VM

Username: admin
Password: Aa123456*

Demo-XPenology

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